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St. Michael the Archangel Orthodox Church

2300 W. Huntington Drive, Kirkwood Hwy, Wilmington, Delaware 19808

Rev. James Weremedic, Rector • (302) 995-6775 • Cell (570) 764-4323

Email: • Web: www.stmichael-delaware-oca.org

Vespers & Confessions: Saturday, 5:00 pm

Hours, Divine Liturgy & Fellowship: Sunday, 8:40 am

Sunday, January 6, 2013

31st SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST. Tone 6. THE HOLY THEOPHANY OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. Ven. Macarius of Mt. Athos.

Reader’s Schedule

DATE 3RD HOUR 6TH HOUR EPISTLE

Jan-6 WEREMEDIC WALES WEREMEDIC

Jan-13 BRASOWSKI WEREMEDIC CAREY

Jan-20 RILEY, J RILEY, A PECK

Jan-27 CARPENTER WEREMEDIC SENSOR

Date / Fellowship
Coffee Hour / Service
Duty / Church Cleaners / Library
6-Jan / Kraiter
Cretu / Sulpiz
Kendall / OPEN / Gundersen
13-Jan / Gerassimakis
Bunitsky / Souder
Poletaev / Baldytchev
Fox / Nichols
20-Jan / Morjana, Open
Bisrat / Bunitsky
need help / Shatley / Farrell
27-Jan / Shatley, Hines LaChance / Morjana
Harb / Kutch
Sulpizi / Gregors

A Good Samaritan collection will be taken Today and the first Sunday of each month. Please be generous with your offering.

We welcome our visitors and guests and invite you to join us for coffee hour in the church hall following the Liturgy.

St. Michael’s Building Faith and Fellowship Silent Auction

Please remember to drop off “Basket of the Month” Items in the vestibule of the church. This month items are:

Christmas Holiday Basket – ornaments, home décor items, cards, candles…

Let’s Read! – Kindle, Nook, books, gift cards, bookmarks, reading light…

**Items must be new, unopened and quality merchandise.

Teen Winter Retreat 2013
Come Join the Fun! Join us the weekend of February 8-10, 2013, for the annual Winter Teen Retreat of the Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania. Hang out with old friends, meet new ones, and create memories while learning about the lives of the twelve apostles with Fr. Stephen Vernak. Registration forms are available at www.ocayouth.org. A flyer for this event can be found in the Vestibule. For more information call: 570-493-0108, or E-mail: Visit: www.ocayouth.org

The 2013 Parish Council ‘swearing in’ will occur on Sunday, January 13, 2013. Please prepare through Confession and Communion for your start of service to our Lord in this capacity.

Many thanks to the anonymous donors who recently gave library books and video tapes to the library.

Mary Ann Farrell ( tel: 3024388624) and Ellen Gundersen ( tel: 6103880695) will be new Purchasing Agents for 2013. They will stock kitchen and bathroom items, but please notify them if you notice that supplies are low. There is also a “shopping list” the kitchen near small sink.

Lenten Youth Retreat

Holy Trinity, Ss. Peter and Paul and St. Michael the Archangel churches will hold a Lenten Youth Retreat on March 2, 2013 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm for High School Students (Grades 8th to 12th). Registration Fee $10.00. More information to follow. Volunteers are needed: please see Fr. James.

Prayers for the Departed: Robert Bixler.

Prayers for the Sick and Needy: Fr. Stephen Siniairi, Shawn McGee, Alice and William Dryden, Anna and Luke Wales, Agnes Timchak, Olga Riley, Anna Hotrovich, Mary Guretsky, Marie Holowatch, Theophan Shatley, Joseph Wojciechowski, Olga Maloney, Stephanie, Andrew, Tory Bucks, Peggy Reynolds and Deborah Welker, Evangelos, Angeliki and their two children. Mark and Ellen who are traveling.

Prayers for Women and the Children to be Born of Them:

Analyn Peck, Amanda Weremedic, Elizabeth Clause.

Prayers for Celebration: Marie Holowatch celebrated her 90th Birthday on Saturday, January 5th.

The newly born Josephine Claire Whalen, and her parents Jon and Laura.

The sign-up sheet for House Blessings is in the narthex. Please indicate your preference for morning, afternoon or evening appointment. In addition, please indicate the days you will not be available. Father will schedule based on the information provided and will confirm a date/time with you. In addition, please provide a phone number to confirm appointments.

Stephen and Julia Whalen gave birth on December 30, 2012 at 10:55am EST to Josephine Claire, weighing 8lbs 2oz and measuring 20” long. May God Grant Them Many Blessed Years!

The Parish Council will hold our first monthly meeting of the newly installed 2013 parish council in the Conference room on Thursday, January 17th at 6:30 pm. As we have several items that may require discussion, please plan two hours for this meeting.

Titus 2:11-14; 3:4-7 (Epistle)

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.

But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Matthew 3:13-17 (Gospel)

Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him.

And John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?”

But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him.

When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him.

And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”